Monday, September 15, 2014
By Talya Kingston. At this moment, the play transcended its story; the play was Scotland, and all of Scotland was the play... The climax of over seven hours of theater, this felt like the po…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2014
By Zak Berkman. It is a thoughtful, celebratory, ambitious season, filled with giant heart and profound humor. Four new works. Three iconic classics. Two family productions. It is a season t…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 13, 2014
By Deborah Zoe Laufer. What I imagine the greatest impact of the National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere was to "End Days" was the buzz, publicity, approval it got before it even st…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:08AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
By Morgan Greene. When it was founded in 1969, Free Street Theater (FST) was one of Chicago's first racially integrated ensembles and since its inception has taken its art and activism to th…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:54PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Playwrights Horizons in New York City presents the Bootycandy Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Mond…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2014
By HowlRound TV. Oregon Shakespeare Festival's CultureFest presents a livestreaming conversation "Creating Inclusivity in the American Theatre: A Conversation with Carmen Morgan, Sarah Bella…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:24PM[SHARE]By Ira Gamerman. I feel fairly confident that if some sort of census was to be taken from the last decade of American theatermaking, counting up the total number of productions by playwright…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:10PM[SHARE]By Georgina Escobar. The problem with drinking too much coffee is that, eventually, the tolerance for the caffeine becomes counter-intuitive. And at that ungodly hour, on my way to JFK airpo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2014
By Todd London. There is so much to say about Kia, because Kia herself has so very much to say, and because what she says in her work is always so urgent, so vital. Because to fail to listen…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:36PM[SHARE]By Marisela Orta. There is so much that we, the new Latina/o playwrights, can learn from those who came before us. And if we as a cultural community are to keep working at diversifying the A…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
By Marcina Zaccaria. The Lincoln Center Festival is a breathtaking annual event which ran this year from July 7-August 16. From extraordinary Kabuki Theater to Russian ballet, the festival f…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:00PM[SHARE]By Melinda Lopez. I wrote this summer, but all channeled through the Lorca lens. Translating when you are sad, I can say, is a very good thing to do. You can experience wild creativity withi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:43AM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2014
By Kimberly del Busto Ramirez. While "Hortensia's" sibling protagonists remain displaced, frozen in time, their limbo is markedly different than is typical for exiles. The characters share a…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 7, 2014
By Sarah Ruhl, Polly Carl. Playwright Sarah Ruhl's collection of short essays is called "100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:17AM[SHARE]By Taylor Gruenloh. I'll always be fighting for my voice to be heard. That's why we need more eyewitness accounts. People saying I was there. I saw everything. I know the truth. And that'll …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 6, 2014
By Claudia Alick, Danny Bryck, Mica Cole, Rebecca Martinez, Katy Rubin. The Ferguson Moment was born from the impulse of theater makers across the nation to spark and organize artistic respo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:07AM[SHARE]By Tom Gibbons. The Playwrights, Rewrites, Multiple Productions Series is a weekly series of interviews examining the process of developing a new play through a National New Play Network Rol…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:04AM[SHARE]By Meropi Peponides. The book as a whole is a deeply moving, authentic, and relatable piece of writing. It begins by relating "The Panza Monologues" authors' personal and social history, and…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 08:41AM[SHARE]Friday, September 5, 2014
By Don McClendon, Jacqueline Thompson. On Sunday, August 24th at the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, St. Louis-based theater artists Jacqueline Thompson and Don McClendon participated…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:46PM[SHARE]By Lauren Ferebee. Over my time in Spartanburg, I learned firsthand that South Carolina is not a homogenous place. There are all kinds of people in South Carolina, people with voices and pow…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 01:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2014
By Will Arbery. Miranda Wright doesn't want to be pegged " not yet. The theatrical environment that she's creating is both local and global"theater for a world that is simultaneously more co…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:26PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. The National Playwright Residency Program cohort meeting"a program funded and administered by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"will livestream on the global, commons-based pe…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 02:14PM[SHARE]By Jonathan Mandell. More than a decade ago, A.R. Gurney, who had written some forty plays over forty years, wondered whether he would be forced to retire. Now, at age eighty-three, Gurney h…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
By Polly Carl, Michael Garcés. Polly Carl recently talked with Michael Garcés, artistic director of Cornerstone Theater, about their touring production "California: The Tempest", which rev…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 05:14PM[SHARE]By HowlRound TV. Miracle Theatre of Cornwall, United Kingdom presents a livestreaming performance of "The Tempest" on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlroun…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2014
By Teresa Marrero. Latin Americans exposed to such trends bring a wider breadth of theater-going experiences than we are used to in the U.S. Latin American theater does not terminate at some…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 03:04PM[SHARE]Monday, September 1, 2014
By Eric Mayer-GarcÃa. "Dreaming in Cuban" is dedicated to performance as a way to evoke, remember, feel, create, long for, and traverse Cuba. The discussion in the blog series that follow…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 09:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 31, 2014
By Trista Baldwin. There is no one producer. There is no one managing director. There is no Boss of Us. There is no shoulder to cry on. …Workhaus Collective has changed arms and legs, losi…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 30, 2014
By Stephen Sachs. I remember very clearly when it suddenly hit me"that I could see it and experience it for myself"that the play would have a future life. And that happened because I was abl…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2014
By David Dower. Today my guest is the inestimable Liz Lerman. Listeners may mostly be familiar with Liz through her Critical Response Process, which is in use around the world as a system fo…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 10:58AM[SHARE]By Isaac Rathbone, Cindy Rosenthal. Researching the war and the following years, the ripple effects of World War I impacted not just international politics, but everything from race relation…
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